As the melody of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games\u2019 motto song, \u201cTogether for a Shared Future,\u201d is known by more and more people, the Beijing 2022 inches increasingly closer.
\n \u201cWe are fully confident and capable of presenting to the world a fantastic, extraordinary and excellent Winter Olympics,\u201d said Chinese President Xi Jinping while inspecting the preparatory work of the sports event recently, noting that after years of hard work, all preparatory work of the Beijing 2022 is basically completed.
\nXi\u2019s remarks have fully demonstrated China\u2019s confidence in fulfilling its solemn commitment to the international community to deliver a successful Beijing 2022 and manifested the aspiration of a positive, prosperous and open China to embrace the world and create a beautiful future together with the rest of the world.
\nHosting a successful 2022 Games is China\u2019s delightful promise to the world. On July 31, 2015, Beijing, together with Zhangjiakou city in north China\u2019s Hebei province, won the bid to host the 24th Olympic Winter Games, also known as the 2022 Winter Olympics, at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session.
\nOn the same day, Xi sent a congratulatory letter to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games bid delegation, stressing that China will strive to deliver a fantastic, extraordinary and excellent Olympics in 2022.
\n \u201cWe will fulfill all our commitments and witness, together with the people of all countries and the IOC, the advent of a new phase in the development of the Olympic winter sports and in the spread of the Olympic spirit,\u201d said Xi in his letter to IOC President Thomas Bach on July 31, 2015.
\nOver the past more than six years, China has made unremitting efforts to fulfill its solemn commitment to the international community. The country has promoted the ideas of hosting the Games in a green, sharing, open and clean manner and delivering a streamlined, safe and splendid Olympic Games.
\nThe IOC has always made positive remarks on China\u2019s preparations for the Beijing 2022 and fully acknowledged the country\u2019s contribution to the international Olympic cause.
\nIn October 2016, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and then vice president of the IOC, praised the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for getting off to a very fast start in the preparatory work and pointed out that initial preparations were on the right track.
\nAfter visiting proposed venues for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou and Beijing before a meeting with Xi in January 2019, Bach said he was deeply impressed with China\u2019s pragmatic, efficient, and vitalized preparations for the Games.
\n \u201cWe are looking forward to successful Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and we have great confidence, built on our experience, that we will stage safe and secure Olympic Winter Games for everybody,\u201d Bach said in his New Year\u2019s Message 2022 published on the IOC official website on Dec. 31, 2021. He believes that \u201cthese Winter Games will open a new era for winter sports globally.\u201d
\nIn a recent interview with Chinese media, Samaranch said he believes that China will stage a splendid Olympic Games for the world.
\nFilled with confidence in China, the international community is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Beijing 2022 and looks forward to new surprises Beijing has prepared for the world.
\nIn 2008, China successfully hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which represented a perfect answer given by the country to the third of the well-known three questions raised by \u201cTianjin Youth\u201d magazine in 1908: \u201cWhen could China send an athlete to participate in an Olympic Games?\u201d \u201cWhen could China send a delegation to an Olympic Games?\u201d \u201cWhen could China host an Olympic Games?\u201d
\nThis year, the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people will embrace the Olympic Movement again. By delivering a \u201cfantastic, extraordinary and excellent\u201d Olympics in 2022, China will promote the popularization and development of ice and snow sports and enhance understanding and friendship between the Chinese people and peoples of various countries around the world.
\nOver the past years, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway connecting the three competition zones of the Beijing 2022, the world\u2019s first intelligent high-speed train with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, was officially put into operation; the National Ski Jumping Center and the National Speed Skating Oval, which are nicknamed the \u201cSnow Ruyi\u201d and the \u201cIce Ribbon\u201d respectively, were completed; the National Aquatics Center, known as the \u201cWater Cube\u201d, was transformed into \u201cIce Cube\u201d for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games; and the country\u2019s vision of engaging 300 million people in winter sports across China has been realized ahead of schedule.
\nThrough these achievements made during the preparations for the Beijing 2022, people around the world have witnessed how the Chinese people have worked hard for their dreams in the new era.
\nAs the COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc worldwide, the Beijing 2022 bears the task of deepening mutual understanding and exchanges between peoples around the world through the Olympic Movement.
\nIn December 2021, the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Beijing Winter Olympic Truce Resolution drafted by China and the IOC. The resolution expressed \u201cthe expectation that the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 will be a meaningful opportunity to harness the power of sport to advance the world by fostering an atmosphere of peace, development, resilience, tolerance and understanding.\u201d
\nMany multilateral mechanisms, including the 10th Olympic Summit, the Group of 20, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the China-CELAC Forum, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, have voiced strong support for the Beijing 2022.
\nThe international community\u2019s support for the Games has demonstrated the aspiration of various parties to pull together in times of trouble, defeat the pandemic, safeguard peace, and work together for a shared future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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